Table of Contents

Inside the February 2006 Issue

Photographed exclusively for V.F. by Mario Testino in Malibu, California, on September 21, 2005.

Features

Confessions of a Teenage Movie Queen
At 19, Lindsay Lohan has lived through enough drama for a month of E! True Hollywood Storys, from the war between her parents to her hospital flameout. The ingenue of Robert Altman’s forthcoming A Prairie Home Companion unloads to Evgenia Peretz. Photographs by Mario Testino.

The special prosecutor scarifying the White House has put away al-Qaeda terrorists and indicted Conrad Black. Is anyone beyond his reach? David Margolick profiles U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald—bachelor, brainiac, legal juggernaut.

Driven by Dynasty
The adored grandson of the late Fiat patriarch Gianni Agnelli, Lapo Elkann was racing to save the family business. Those plans—like his red-carpet romance—hit a wall when he was rescued from an overdose in the apartment of a transsexual prostitute. Mark Seal reports from Turin.

Karenna’s World
Karenna Gore Schiff’s faith in the democratic process was battered in 2000 when her father lost in overtime to George W. Bush. But, she tells Laura Jacobs, she reconnected with the ideals of growing up Gore by writing her first book, about women who fought for justice. Photograph by Gasper Tringale.

Gawk of the Town
Norman Jean Roy and Jim Windolf spotlight the gossips’ gossips at Gawker Media, whose Web sites are guilty must-clicks.

Everyman’s Castle
As the London glitterati converge for the centennial of Everyman’s Library, David Campbell, who revived the imprint, talks to David Jenkins about turning classics into best-sellers, and his no-less-daring transformation of a Scottish Highlands fixer-upper into a Palladian jewel. Photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes.

[Don Imus’s Last Stand?](/politics/features/2006/02/imus200602)

A 40-year radio veteran with close to three million die-hard fans, Don Imus looks as if he’s been to hell and back. He has. Spending a week with the merciless shock jock, Buzz Bissinger discovers what makes him tick—and explode. Photographs by Mark Seliger.

Camelot’s Second Lady
From her diplomatic dalliances in postwar Paris to her Kennedy-era dominion over Washington society, Susan Mary Alsop got as close to power as any woman could. Then she wrote about it. Susan Braudy illuminates the hidden history of a blueblood beauty.

Columns
Through a Lens, Darkly
Screening a new documentary, Why We Fight, and The Unrecovered, a meditation on 9/11, James Wolcott examines what they reveal about American fears, power, and grief.

R for Revolution
George Clooney’s latest movies may be progressive, but with V for Vendetta, the Wachowski brothers’ new film, Michael Wolff sees a pop-culture insurrection.

In Plane Sight
Are air marshals a deterrent or a danger? In the wake of the Miami-airport shooting, Richard Gooding investigates the program, which has been slammed for its dress code, its morale, and its leadership.

Vanities
Patton-Ted Smile
Holly Brubach puts the fantasy back into fantasy football. George Wayne turns the tables on Jerry Springer.